“I would rather send my child to a secular school than to a Catholic school where unsound doctrine is promoted.” Do you agree?

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LOL PC nonsense. I agree. I hate that stuff. There’s little posters around my university reminding us to not use “man/men”-terms. It’s ridiculous.

Hey what am I supposed to call a manhole? A personhole? LMAOOOOO.
How about “Lady’s man”? A person’s person? It’s hilarious.
 
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OurGodIsWithUs said:
LOL PC nonsense. I agree. I hate that stuff. There’s little posters around my university reminding us to not use “man/men”-terms. It’s ridiculous.

Hey what am I supposed to call a manhole? A personhole? LMAOOOOO.
How about “Lady’s man”? A person’s person? It’s hilarious.
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Oh, they’ve been trying to hammer that “person” thing into us forever. I remember in graduate school, and that’s been over 35 years ago, we had one feminist professor (she was not quite as obnoxious about it as she could have been, she and I got on well, I never mentioned being Catholic, that might have been why) who tied her tongue into knots one evening trying to avoid using the word “she” when referring to a certain female. Really pathetic.
 
Home schooling is very big in the USA, for posters who live elsewhere.
Many Catholics who homeschool use one of the national Catholic curricula, strongly endorsed by many bishops.

In my diocese home schoolers are often organized into associations, which offer socialization and sometimes one or two days of classes each week. Thus, home schooling under Catholic guidance is not in any way defiance of canon law - it’s Catholic schooling.
 
Catholic teaching in the home is best. Its itsforced byCathiolic teaching at school.

Woud your rather correct and teach aboutJesus or new wave. Yoga, rekecki the universe “the universe”. says is common in pubic school

I would rather show scripture and prayer then to other nonsense.
 
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There may be some public Catholic schools available in parts if the world I suppose. I do not think that home schooling was considered when the law was written, but it is certainly covered based on the “unable” clause.
 
Certainly financial burden would qualify for “unable”, I thought I made that clear.
 
From my experience, Catholic schools have been very strong. Our family knows our 8th grade teacher well, and he’s a wonderfully strong Catholic convert with a great love of history. He is just one example of the quality teachers we have experienced in Catholic school. In our Catholic high school, there probably is a percentage of kids who don’t take it seriously, though. However, my kids still can find plenty of strong Catholic friends, they still get strong Catholic teachers and catechesis at a higher level. No lgbtq brainwashing etc.
Thank God for the Indiana Republicans who passed the school voucher program.
 
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Homeschooling is a big sacrifice, but seems to be the only way. There are a few authentically Catholic schools around. Regina Caeli schools have been recommended to me. I like their concept - part homeschool, part classroom each week
 
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However, if there is a Catholic school available to you (geographically, financially, etc), then it seems to violate Church law.
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It’s interesting. In the old old days, the pastor would come knocking on your door if you kept your kids out of the parish school. But tuition was free and Catholic teaching was 100% good, so there wouldn’t be a good reason for it anyway.
Thankfully, Our Lord has made it possible for us to avoid those bad schools now - so His little children can learn the Faith at home (and keep their innocence).
The loss of Catholic-faith in our school system is a tragedy.
 
As I said above, in my area there has been a resurgence of Catholic faith in out schools.
 
Mine would be either homeschooled or go to the Catholic school (only because I know the people that teach at said school are solidly orthodox)
 
If I check out the school and the doctrine IS unsound, then yes, I would send to public school if I could not homeschool. Because otherwise you are asking a child to first, not attend the school where a lot of his or friends go, but by the fact that you are paying extra money and insisting on a ‘faith’ school you are emphasizing how important that faith IS, yet when your child is talking about what he or she learns, you’re constantly correcting him. . “No, that’s not correct’. Then you have to confront the teachers and the principal and argue with them.

Young children want to learn. So you ask them to learn and they tell them they have learned ‘wrong’. That is a recipe for resentment on their part. Where are they spending their days? With the teachers that you are also ‘condemning’. You’re asking them to give up loyalty now to the people you supposedly found so important in their faith teaching. You’re putting yourself up as the expert when supposedly the teachers are the experts. The kids wind up like little footballs as their teachers resent them for their parents, the other kids won’t want to associate with them, and it’s all over stuff that to them isn’t even something they can see, hear, or touch. Furthermore, just about every aspect of SECULAR life is screaming how those who don’t accept others ‘where they are’ are intolerant bigots, so now the PARENTS look like the intolerant bigots.

It’s almost a total guarantee that even if the kids don’t get pulled from the school and the entire family ‘lapses’, that the kids will lapse from a mixture of resentment and rebellion. “So this faith is important to you, Mom? So important you make my life miserable? Well then Mom, tough on you, I’m a proud atheist and I’ll never make MY kids miserable over a spaghetti monster”.

At least if your child has the choice between secular and an unsound Catholic school, sending him to the secular and giving him/her SOUND Catholic doctrine, whether through Seton or similar packets, and ensuring your child gets the real facts and not constant correction, gives a much better chance that the child doesn’t have a mountain of baggage associated with the Catholic faith!
 
I can only speak to an online friend’s experience, as I went to a public school, but he said that the Catholic school he attended had a very elitist culture, and if you weren’t a white and well-to-do person you’d be pretty isolated from your peers (he’s Hispanic and was attending the school through financial aid.)
He said that the academics were very good though. He’s currently on a full-ride scholarship to a very prestigious university, so I guess it worked out for him.
He also complained that the religion classes were very rushed and poorly taught.

I have no idea how universal that concept is to Catholic schools, that’s just what I know from a friend.
 
one of the greatest mistakes in my life was sending my children to the local Catholic high school
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Somewhere between two thirds and three fourths of my take-home was spent on the combination of tuition and transportation, and I didn’t bat an eye at that.

What we eventually came to see, though, is that the culture was very much not Catholic, and that the place was a moral cesspool. It was the very environment we were living in poverty to try to protect them from!

The best thing that could happen to Catholic education here would be for a meteor to obliterate the campus on a weekend it was empty.

We pulled the last pair out rather suddenly when we found one curled up crying in a panic attack and it all came bubbling out.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a Catholic lawyer to sue over the sexual harassment and environment by both other students and faculty. (I would have had the “fool for a client” problem had I done it myself; I was so far from being able to be dispassionate and clinical about it).

And the bishop simply ignored my seven page letter detailing specific problems.

But, hey, the football team is dominant, and that’s what matters to the donors . . .
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“Parents are to entrust their children to those schools which provide a Catholic education” is not limited to Catholic private schools.
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Also, there are Catholic schools in which they can be enrolled and provide curricula and other resources for homeschooling.

when we pulled our kids, I put them in a charter school.

That lasted a week with new horrors.

Then I found an independent school, actually informally affiliated with BYU.

They were far freer to be catholic in that mormon influenced environment than in the Catholic school. They were actually supported in it, and asked about their faith, rather than ostracized for it (they were, for example, often the only ones in their classes at the “Catholic” school that even crossed themselves for prayer . . . )
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Now I want it back because gosh, it was more convenient. It’s more practical too, when enforcing modesty/dress code.
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It’s not just about who can and and can’t afford it, and the status issues, but also about the amount of time and attention that goes into those, and the distraction from actual learning.
 
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